HYDERABAD: Contrary to official perceptions, a ‘Financial Commission in Covid times report for 2021-26’ has revealed that the educational standards in Telangana are either poorer than the national average or have substantially deteriorated over a period of time, in terms of reading and arithmetic abilities of students.
Taking from the ASER 2018 report, it further states that compared to the national average, the percentage of the ability of the State’s Class three children to read Class 2 text or even perform basic subtraction has slid from 2016 to 2018. While in 2016, children who were able to read the text correctly from a lower grade textbook stood at 18.6 per cent in 2016, it went down to 18.1% in 2018, whereas the national average rose from 25.2% to 27.3% during the same period.
Students who were able to do basic subtraction fell from 42.2% to 34.5% in 2018 in Telangana, whereas the national average rose to 28.2% from 27.7%.
TS and AP head of Pratham Foundation…
